Sunday, April 22, 2018
If it seemed like no staging could ever top London’s National Theatre production (which was directed by Nicholas Hytner and came to Lincoln Center in the mid 1990’s), this newer version …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PMFriday, April 13, 2018
After the first song, “We are in the house where I grew up,” says Abigail, with the bacon and eggs and toast and tea in the morning, on the first day of a new school year. Adding to the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:39AMTuesday, April 3, 2018
If you pay any attention to the Rialto, then you knew that Jackson was going to be in the play--the play that salvaged Albee’s reputation in 1993 and won him his third Pulitzer Prize--sinc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:56PMFriday, March 30, 2018
Nathan Lane as Roy M. Cohn and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Belize in a scene from Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” (Photo credit: Brinkhoff & Mögenburg) David Kaufman, Critic Full…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:40AMThursday, March 22, 2018
Any further comparisons with the Broadway musical "Come From Away" end with the Nova Scotia setting as Chaim and Chaya quickly settle in Montreal where the 19-year-old Chaim marries the 24-y…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:22AMSunday, March 18, 2018
In an “Author’s Note” to his play "Later Life," A.R. Gurney explains that it was inspired by "The Beast in the Jungle," a famous novella by Henry James, about a man who leads a “guar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PMThursday, March 8, 2018
Despite some terrific acting, it’s hard to root for any of the four characters in Kings, even if the play is one long competition between all of them. This smart new work by Sarah Burgess …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMFriday, March 2, 2018
Thus begins the unique show, "Black Light," which is a concert cum confessional. In her sequenced gowns--and there are five costume changes during the 90-minute performance--and with her red…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:46PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
But "Reference" is also about issues of gender, race, age, celebrity, politics, economics, and the inescapable impact of the Internet--and more specifically, social media--on the ways busine…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44PMSunday, February 18, 2018
The sense of good, old-fashioned suspense is heightened by director Matthew Dunster, who also helps delineate the spot-on performances by the four remaining cast members--and regulars at Har…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:33PMSunday, February 4, 2018
Though the production has been designed by its director, John Doyle, there is no scenery to speak of, except for a gold framed mirror on the rear wall, another framed mirror angled and dangl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:47PMSaturday, February 3, 2018
... in Deen’s mad dash to portray Shireern’s elderly Indian father and mother--who live in Connectictut--her girlfriend, Molly, and so many other figures, including even a housecleaner a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:05AMSunday, January 28, 2018
Though there’s a major surprise lurking at the top of the second act, and though it’s about how sins of the past can impinge on the present, Scott Organ’s "The Thing with Feathers" is …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55PMMonday, January 15, 2018
But in John Lithgow: Stories by Heart, Lithgow tells an even more compelling tale about growing up with his father Arthur Lithgow, an actor who taught Shakespeare even as he opened and ran S…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:37PMWednesday, December 27, 2017
Steve Martin’s old/new wonderful comedy, "Meteor Shower," is about two California couples getting together for the first time--again, and again, and again. Like "Groundhog Day," it keeps s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:37PMFriday, December 15, 2017
As adapted for the stage by Anthony E. Palermo, it’s roughly half the length of the film. But it still tells the same story about George Bailey, who on Christmas Eve in 1946 intends to tak…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:55PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Philip’s shaggy-dog yarn keeps exposing him as what used to be known as a pathological liar. And with little more than a wooden deck chair, a small table, a wooden slated floor and a sky-b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMWednesday, November 22, 2017
The protagonist of "Junk" is one Robert Merkin (Steven Pasquale), whose name alone is reminiscent of the real-life person he represents, Michael Robert Milken, the “Junk Bond King” of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:34PMMonday, November 13, 2017
Played to perfection with an infectious joy by one and all, the entire cast also takes a deadly serious attitude towards their lines and their actions. Indeed Ludlam’s "Conquest" invokes "…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:22PMWednesday, November 8, 2017
The hype that surrounds an award-winning performance on one side of the Atlantic can often preclude its impact if and when it arrives on the other side. This is not the case, I’m happy to …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:18PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
With so many interruptions, it hardly makes for riveting theater, and it never becomes as riveting as a genuine tennis match can be, even though one is ostensibly taking place from the begin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMSaturday, October 28, 2017
While superficially poignant, "Torch Song" remains what it always was: a fierce play about the need for respect as a gay person, when it was painfully more difficult to come by acceptance, l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PMMonday, October 23, 2017
Elizabeth McGovern, Charlotte Parry and Anna Baryshnikov in a scene from J.B.Priestley’s “Time and the Conways” (Photo credit: Jeremy Daniel) David Kaufman, Critic Much to New York…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:46PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
hough it’s a one-woman show, Alison Fraser plays a number of characters by speaking in different voices with a certain technical prowess. The principal one is an upper West Side psychother…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:02AMSunday, October 15, 2017
As the show progresses with intermittent songs, the other musicians/singers (Ryan McCurdy, Matt Park, and Rocky Vega) also strip down to their underwear/lingerie. The sounds they all make ar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMMonday, October 9, 2017
With only a metal-mesh cage, bed-frame, and a gate--and gobs of black feathers that ultimately litter the stage--Nashman cavorts around the black box set (scenic design is by Marysia Bucholc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMWednesday, October 4, 2017
The ambiguities in Mary Jane’s character seem to stem more from the writing than the acting: though her behavior remains dubious or questionable, Mary Jane comes to real life as enacted by…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37PMWednesday, September 27, 2017
The only color in the predominantly black-and-white show is orange, which appears as a pair of high heels, a hat and a cape, an apron, books, and various other odd items. There’s also a la…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:56PMSaturday, September 23, 2017
Both as written by Stroppel and portrayed by Stephen D’Ambrose (Stravinsky) and Mark Shanahan (Disney), it also becomes clear that they are equally imperious--at first. Though they’re bo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:02PMWednesday, September 20, 2017
In fact, Harry Feiner’s marvelous, you-are-there set design for "The Violin" made me think of 'American Buffalo" (set in a shabby pawn shop) before the first words of the play were even ut…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMSaturday, September 16, 2017
The awkwardly titled "The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias" has problems beyond its nomenclature. What, if anything, is it ultimately about? Though it claims to be a “satiric…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:00PM 
